Functional Models of Cognition - Self-Organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Cognitive Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)

Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world. It seems impossible to think of enti ties, individuals and events without specifying and constructing, in advance, a specific language that must be used in order to speak about these same entities. We really know only insofar as we regiment our system of the world in a consistent and adequate way. At the level of proper nouns and existence functions we have, for instance, a standard form of a regimented language whose complementary apparatus consists of predicates, variables, quantifiers and truth functions. If, for instance, the discoveries in the field of Quantum Mechanics should oblige us, in the future, to abandon the traditional logic of truth functions, the very notion of existence, as established until now, will be chal lenged. These considerations, as developed by Quine, introduce us to a conceptual perspective like the "internal realist" perspective advocated by Putnam whose principal aim is, for cer tain aspects, to link the philosophical approaches developed respectively by Quine and Wittgenstein. Actually, Putnam conservatively extends the approach to the problem of ref erence outlined by Quine: in his opinion, to talk of "facts" without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Theory and Decision Library A:, 27
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	2000
Editors:	A. Carsetti
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-5360-2
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > Cybernetics & systems theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	90-481-5360-3
Barcode:	9789048153602

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